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ssFader class

Here is a new class that will give you fading capability on your forms.  This has been mentioned to me the other night by Daryll Bautista saying maybe I would like to create a fader class.  And I told...

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ssClose

ssClose 1 to 3 are just a small image that serves as the exit or close button of your form.  Please see previous posts regarding those.ChangeLog as of December 20, 2012:I accidentally removed form...

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ssThrobber

Note as of December 28, 2012:It was reported to me that ssThrobber do not work on others.  And when I checked here, it is only working on my machine but not on the rest of my users.  So here is a fix...

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ssTransparent + ssClose

As I am in the mood these days to create transparent irregularly shaped forms, I decided to work on another module on my end to give it a better appearance.  So last night I sat infront of my laptop...

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ssSwitch & ssOptSwitch - New Skins

What's New?Cleaner CodesFaster SwitchingBetter looksSwitched to PNG format for better appearancesChanged font from Tahoma 8 to Tahoma 10When I first created most of my classes, all I wanted is to have...

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Thor, a must have Tool!

Thor is a tool developed and shared to us by Jim Nelson to manage add-on "other" tools in VFP IDE.  Tools such as ssClasses library, IntellisenseX, GoFish, FoxCodePlus, PEM Editor; to name a few....

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ssThrobber on Alpha 3.0

What's New:a.  Changed look. It is now Snoopy sliding around instead of a simple throbberb.  Bigger fonts WordWrappedc.  Ability to change captiond.  The ability to specify positionsSince the original...

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ssPolyClock on Alpha 3.0

What's New:Created clockimgs custom class.  This now handles the themes and imagesAdded Theme No. 3 (Metal Skins) created by Dayll Bautista.   Removed all previous skins I created before.  I changed...

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ssButton is back!!!

If you observe, I have ssButton3 & 4 in the library but no ssButton (1 & 2).  That is because those are tied up with ss_support.app.   As I am very busy these days, I cannot move outright those...

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ssContainer is also back!!!

Since ssButton is now part of ssClasses library, I can also move over ssContainer as the image of the title bar I used on said container is dependent on the images I used for ssButton.  I won't explain...

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Setting Focus to an Object via its TabIndex Value

MK has been repeatedly requesting from me if I can make ssOptSwitch totally loose focus and moves to the next control when user presses TAB and I said that unless someone showed me a way to do that via...

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ssClasses issue on cCleaner

A subscriber has been repeatedly requesting me for a major update on how ssClasses works just because one (or some) of his clients have cCleaner on their machines and said cCleaner is beating the crap...

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ssClasses Image Location Poll

MK has emailed me ssClasses with one change, i.e., GETENV("TMP") is replaced with CURDIR().  However, my CURDIR() is my folder for my tables named records.  So implementing this will result to...

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Grid Showing Fonts' Name and Appearance

Here is another one that again comes from reading a need of a member inside foxite forum which is to show the list of fonts on the current computer unit in any object possible with an added minor...

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Sandstorm's Quick Search Tool

Here is another that again came from reading a need inside Foxite forum which is trying to find a location of a file (or files) and going straight there.  Just for fun, I added several options here...

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LockScreen Woes! - Beware!

Being a proponent of Clipper during my DOS xBase days, I massively use ScreenLock where it will lock the screen (do not show things as they happen) and where I can start creating boxes, labels, buttons...

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Dynamic Detailed Summary in Report?

Need something like this? At the bottom of the report, a detailed summary based on the entries on the report? Surprisingly, this is very easy to do if you know the knobs to twist.   The process and...

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ssUltimate/ssClasses Sample Video

For the first time, I decided to show by way of video how one of my apps look like.  This one is a very small app I called Easy ID Creator which is what I develop to be used here on our end in creating...

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Conditional Sub-Total on Report (repost)

Most of Foxite forum members are aware that I have been blogging in Weblogs way before I decided to blog here in blogspot.  However, I have a lot of new visitors here who might not be aware of that so...

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Nominations for 2013 Ceil Silver Ambassador is ON!

Southwest Fox organizers has recently informed me that this year's nomination from the VFP community for the 2013 Ceil Silver Ambassador recipient is ON!  So if you think of someone deserving to be...

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